Sega Mega-Tech

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The Sega Mega-Tech was an arcade system developed by Sega Europe in 1989. It is based on Sega Mega Drive hardware, and more or less identical. Its operation ability is similar to Nintendo's PlayChoice-10, where the credits bought give the use a playable time period rather than lives (usually 1 minute per credit), and can switch between games during playtime.

A few things were omitted, such as the expansion hardware allowing for Sega CD or Sega 32X as these were not developed at this point, so would not likely be offered as an arcade expansion. The PCB for the Mega-Tech also includes the ability to display to a second monitor, which contains a list of the games installed in the machine and also displays instructions for controlling the game, 1 or 2 player information, and a short synopsis of each game. The second monitor also displays the time left for playing.

Since the machine was basically a Mega Drive with timer control for arcade operations, porting games to the Mega-Tech was an easy task and so many games were released, most of them incredibly popular titles such as Streets Of Rage, Revenge Of Shinobi, Golden Axe, Sonic The Hedgehog and many more. The ability was also added for the machine to play Sega Master System titles, though fewer Master System titles were ported than Mega Drive titles. Some include the original Shinobi, Outrun and After Burner.

The Mega-Tech system was soon replaced by its successor, the Mega-Play, a JAMMA based system utilising only 4 carts instead of 8. This version also utilize traditional arcade operations, in which credit bought is used to buy lives instead.

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